A spaceship traveling 12.3 km/s relative to Earth sends out an EM pulse with a wavelength of

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A spaceship traveling 12.3 km/s relative to Earth sends out an EM pulse with a wavelength of 850.00 nm (as measured by the source). The pulse is reflected from another spaceship that is moving toward the first spaceship at a speed of 24.6 km/s relative to Earth. What will be the wavelength of the reflected pulse as measured by the first spaceship?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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